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...many of the abortion-rights advocates said they see their most important battle as being against the Bush administration, which passed legislation limiting the ability of women to undergo partial birth abortions...
Buka added that since the brain continues to develop for two to three years after birth, there’s no reason to think that exposing young children to second-hand smoke wouldn’t have the same effect on their potential for nicotine dependency...
Previous studies have linked smoking while pregnant with a number of other adverse effects, including low birth weight, higher incidence of miscarriage and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome...
Former HRL President Melissa R. Moschella ’02 countered that the legality of abortion—or lack thereof—rests on an understanding of when life begins. “Before the birth, it is murder,” Moschella said. “Abortion doesn’t make [a woman] unpregnant, it simply kills the fetus...
...abortion bears the unopposable name of “Child Custody Protection Act.” And Democrats this year lost a rhetorically unwinnable fight against a ban on late-term abortion, or as CNN gingerly calls it, “what opponents refer to as partial birth abortion.” Pleas for some kind of exceptions, as when the life of the mother was at stake, failed before the Republican master stroke of terminology, which gave new life to the old routine that liberals kill babies...